Noun

(en noun)

The head of a nunnery.

* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 29:

Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.

A dominatrix.

* 1997 , Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives (page 294)

Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization

* 2004 , Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power

Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M

Noun

(en-noun)

(games) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.

(politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect

A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 485:

all the women were desirous of having the bundle immediately opened; which operation was at length performed by little Betsy, with the consent of Mr Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino , a mask, and a masquerade ticket.

* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1007:

Then he hunted for the black carnival domino , supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.

The mask itself.

* {{quote-book

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The person wearing the costume.

(geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.